TRANSITION METALS

What makes a metal a transition

element?
 2

Electrons in which subshells make

it possible for transition metals to
have variable oxidation charges?
 3

What makes up a complex ion?

 4

What is required of a molecule or

ion to be a possible ligand?
 5

What are coordinate covalent

bonds?
 6

What is the oxidation number of

the central metal in the complex
ion?
[Co(en)2(H2O)Br] 2+
 7

What is the coordination number

of the central metal in the
complex ion?
[Co(en)2(H2O)Br] 2+
 8

What is the geometry around the

central metal in the complex ion?
[Co(en)2(H2O)Br] 2+
 9

What is the name of the complex

ion?
[Co(en)2(H2O)Br] 2+
 10

What is the chemical formula of

complex compound formed by
the following ions?
[MoF6] 4-

[Co(en)2(H2O)Br] 2+
 11

What is the name of complex

compound formed by the
following ions?
[MoF6] 4-

[Co(en)2(H2O)Br] 2+
 12

What is the name of complex

compound formed by the
following ions?
[MoF6] 4-

[Co(en)2(H2O)Br] 2+
 13
What is the expression of the
stability constant, Kstab, for this
equation?
 14
What is the significance of the
stability constant?
15
16
17
18
 19
Draw the possible structures of
the square planar complex ion:

[NiCl2Br2] 4-
 20
Explain why copper and iron
aqueous solutions from your
qualitative analysis experiment
have color while the rest (Ca2+,
Ba2+, Zn2+, NH4+) are colorless?